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Wakefield Baptist to host singing Sunday
Wakefield Baptist Church, located at 5517 Bloomfield Road in Taylorsville, will host a signing on Sunday at 5 p.m. featuring David Stevens and company, and Richard and Rita Sweazy. After the worship service, the church will meat in the fellowship hall.

Spencer Christian to start Bible study for middle school girls
Spencer Christian Church will host a seven-week Bible study for middle school girls titled, “Beauty by the Book,” on Sundays from 6 to 7 p.m. beginning this Sunday.

Nannie and C.B. Gilbert celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary by renewing their vows at Open Door Christian Center in Bloomfield on Feb. 23. The family thanks Mavis Bennett and Eric Gilbert for their role in the ceremony.

Laura G. “Dolly” Brock, 91, passed away at 5:05 p.m., March 4, 2013, at Signature HealthCare in Taylorsville. She had been a resident of Signature for the past year, and resided at the Chapel House in Taylorsville for over 10 years prior to her residency at Signature. She lived in Spencer County for more than 65 years.

Local law enforcement confirmed that a Spencer County High School student brought a small-caliber handgun unloaded with bullets to campus last Tuesday and that the weapon changed hands between two students sometime during the school day.

Taylorsville Police Chief Toby Lewis recommended last Tuesday that the city not sign a memorandum of understanding with the Spencer County Sheriff’s Office and Spencer County EMS to obtain the agencies’ analog radio frequencies.
“I don’t see that we need to sign the current MOU the mayor has received at this point,” Lewis told the City Commission at a special meeting.
Lewis said that the agencies can communicate without it.

Two Falmouth residents arrested for shooting up in the Country Mart parking lot in December were indicted Feb. 7 by a Spencer County grand jury.
Kevin A. Highlander, 40, of Broad Street in Falmouth, and Tina L. Scott, 34, of West Shelby Street in Falmouth, are each charged with first-degree possession of a controlled substance, heroin, complicity, a Class D felony, and possession of drug paraphernalia, complicity, a Class A misdemeanor.
The drug paraphernalia included a syringe, a pack of razors and a box of aluminum foil, according to the indictment.

The Louisville man arrested last month for stabbing, then dumping another man in the Elk Creek Grocery parking lot was indicted by a Spencer County grand jury on Feb. 21.
Paul C. Barr Jr., 34, of the 1100 block of Lehigh Avenue in Louisville, now faces charges of first-degree assault, a Class B felony, and tampering with physical evidence, a Class D felony.
Barr is scheduled for a review in Spencer Circuit Court on April 29 at 4 p.m.

A 37-year-old Taylorsville man that was indicted in October on two counts of promoting a sexual performance by a minor has now been indicted on five felony charges of possession of matter portraying a sexual performance by a minor.

Candidates needed for levee commissioners
An election will be held in the first week in April for commissioners of the levee district in Taylorsville. Candidates must own property within the levee district. Anyone interested in being a candidate can contact Deputy Judge Karen Curtsinger at 477-3206.